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Coronavirus: LAUSD officials say lack of clear reopening guidance from state hampering negotiationsJanuary 25, 2021 at 10:03 PM With the deadline for applying for the state’s Safe Schools for All reopening grant a week away, Los Angeles Unified School District leaders are pressing state and county health officials for a clearer definition as to what constitutes a safe learning environment, saying the lack of consistent guidance is why the district and local teachers union have yet to reach an agreement on returning students to campus.
One major hang-up has been over the proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration that...Tags: Business, News, Education, Sport, Soccer, Long Beach, Lausd, Biden, Local News, California Supreme Court, Gavin Newsom, Legislature, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles Daily News, Austin Beutner, Newsom 35 people like this. Like LA County touts improved vaccine signup site as coronavirus numbers continue to declineJanuary 25, 2021 at 9:21 PM With coronavirus statistics continuing to budge downward and a reimagined vaccination signup website to show off on Monday, Jan. 25, Los Angeles County health officials expressed guarded optimism that the pandemic was started to ease up at last — with fingers crossed that they would get enough vaccines soon to make a bigger dent in the mammoth task of inoculating 10 million county residents.
After state health officials today lifted all regional stay-at-home orders, including in the 11-county S...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Sport, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Lausd, Pasadena, Local News, Southern California, Los Angeles County, South Coast Air Quality Management District 13 people like this. Like The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation DichotomyJanuary 25, 2021 at 7:17 PM Analyzing more than 2,500 firm-level innovation histories spanning 30 years, this study shows that breakthrough innovation requires organizational capabilities for both exploration and exploitation. Managers should therefore question the frequent advice to put exploration- and exploitation-related innovative efforts into different organizational units. [Author: by Dominika K. Sarnecka and Gary P. Pisano]Tags: College, Gary P Pisano, Dominika K Sarnecka 20 people like this. Like India’s Food Supply Chain During the PandemicJanuary 25, 2021 at 7:17 PM Policy makers in the developing world face important tradeoffs in reacting to a pandemic. The quick and complete recovery of India’s food supply chain suggests that strict lockdown measures at the onset of pandemics need not cause long-term economic damage. [Author: by Matt Lowe, G V Nadhanael, and Benjamin N. Roth]Tags: College, India, Benjamin N Roth, by Matt Lowe, G V Nadhanael, and Benjamin N. Roth, Matt Lowe G V Nadhanael 34 people like this. Like In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism SucceededJanuary 25, 2021 at 7:17 PM Walter Friedman encapsulates four centuries of economic progress—from European merchants to Steve Jobs—in his efficient book, American Business History: A Very Short Introduction. [Author: by Sean Silverthorne]Tags: Steve Jobs, College, Sean Silverthorne, by Sean Silverthorne, Walter Friedman 13 people like this. Like 58 gifts for college students they'll actually want to use, according to a recent gradJanuary 25, 2021 at 3:23 PM When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more. The best gift ideas for college students are useful, but fun - like comfortable sneakers, new headphones, or a good scented candle.As a recent college graduate myself, I can confidently say that this list is a really good place to start your shopping.It covers tech gifts, beauty products, and much more for college-aged men and women.Need more gift ideas for the younger people in your life? Check out our gi...Tags: Reviews, Amazon, Nordstrom, Gift Guide, College, La, US, Trends, Walmart, Features, Gifts, Netflix, New York Times, Patagonia, Tsa, College Students 93 people like this. Like Resilience Skills in a Time of Uncertainty: A Free Course from the University of PennsylvaniaJanuary 25, 2021 at 3:58 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyaF3V-ohjg
Resilience Skills in a Time of Uncertainty. Who could use a course on resilience these days? To get you through this winter of discontent, the University of Pennsylvania has created a free version of Dr. Karen Reivich’s “Resilience Skills” course. (It’s part of the Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization offered through Coursera.) This course teaches students to 1.) understand the protective factors that make one resilient, 2.) make u...Tags: Psychology, Google, Facebook, College, Online Courses, University of Pennsylvania, Facebook Twitter, Karen Reivich, Free Online Version of Yale, Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization 52 people like this. Like Emotional support animals for health care providersJanuary 25, 2021 at 3:00 PM Me: “Hey buddy, how was your day?” Salem: “Meow meow meow!” Me: “Really? That sounds so cool! What else did you do today? I missed you so much!” My favorite part of each day is coming home to my sweet boy, Salem. He is a 2-year-old cat that I adopted from the Capital Area Humane […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Education, Psychiatry, Salem, PA NP, CRNA 50 people like this. Like Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Pairs Weekly Art History Lectures with Cocktail RecipesJanuary 25, 2021 at 10:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAVlWxw9wh8
Once upon a time, not so long ago, First Fridays at the Frick were a gracious way for New Yorkers to kick off the weekend. Admission was waived, participants could take part in open sketching sessions or enjoy live performance, and curators were on hand to give mini lectures on the significance and historical context of certain prized paintings in the collection.
Rather than pull the plug entirely when the museum closed due to the pandemic, the...Tags: Google, Art, College, New York City, Spain, Food & Drink, Museums, Proust, Facebook Twitter, Boucher, Velázquez, Pisco, Vermeer, Philip IV, Hans Holbein, Claude Monet 130 people like this. Like Shop With Me: The Trendiest Pieces to Order from PrettyLittleThing’s SaleJanuary 25, 2021 at 9:30 AM PrettyLittleThing's 50% off sale is too good to pass up, and these are the trendiest clothes to order ASAP!Tags: Shopping, College, Shopping Guide, PrettyLittleThing, Shop with Me 77 people like this. Like A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the HeavensJanuary 25, 2021 at 7:00 AM Rings with discreet dual purpose have been in use since before the common era, when Hannibal, facing extradition, allegedly ingested the poison he kept secreted behind a gemstone on his finger. (More recently, poison rings gave rise to a popular Game of Thrones fan theory…)
Victorians prevented their most closely kept secrets—illicit love letters, perhaps? Last wills and testaments?—from falling into the wrong hands by wearing the keys to the boxes containing these items concealed in signet rin...Tags: Google, Fashion, Astronomy, Design, College, New York City, History, Brooklyn, James Bond, British Museum, Hannibal, Facebook Twitter, Jessica Stewart, Ayun Halliday, Greg Kotis, Swedish Historical Museum 116 people like this. Like Johnson 'looking at potential of relaxing some lockdown measures' next monthJanuary 25, 2021 at 6:43 AM PM says government will review data before 15 February but highlights risk of ‘premature relaxation’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government will look at the possibility of lifting some restrictions in England from mid-February, Boris Johnson has said, though he confirmed the government was looking at tougher measures on traveller quarantine.The prime minister suggested the government would examine the data in the run-up to the 15 February review date to see if ...Tags: England, Science, Education, UK News, Schools, Boris Johnson, Johnson, Coronavirus 35 people like this. Like "You got vaccine priority over my octogenarian mother and my father. For what?"January 25, 2021 at 6:35 AM And if you are a Fairfax County teacher who got vaccinated and you are hiding behind your union, SHAME ON YOU. You got vaccine priority over my octogenarian mother and my father. For what? Think about that.— April Ponnuru (@AprilPonnuru) January 24, 2021 [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Education, Law, Labor, Fairfax County, Ann Althouse, Coronavirus 50 people like this. Like Jimi Hendrix Revisits His Searing Performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner”: The Dick Cavett Show (September 9, 1969)January 25, 2021 at 4:00 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGf9PTYyJ4A
On the final August morning of Woodstock, after a previous day’s downpour had turned most of the field near the stage into mud, after an evening of blues and rock and the comedown of whatever drugs had peaked everybody earlier, as the sunlight crept over what was left of the 500,000 music lovers, now less than half in number, wrapped in blankets and still vibing, Jimi Hendrix took the stage. Now, the Star-Spangled Banner wasn’t his final song, ...Tags: Google, Music, College, America, Chicago, Jimi Hendrix, Tigers, Detroit, Dick Cavett, National Anthem, Maui, Woodstock, Facebook Twitter, 101st Airborne Division, Cavett, Hendrix 66 people like this. Like Technology in the elementary music classroom after the pandemicJanuary 25, 2021 at 5:30 AM The pandemic will leave a lasting impression on music education for years to come. Even when the ending of the pandemic is finally in sight, music education will reel from the effects. When it comes to elementary music education, we thrived on incorporating ensemble performances using instruments from ukuleles to xylophones. We adored allowing our students to improvise using movements, chants, poetry, and instruments. We integrated cultural dances with social-emotional learning skills. When the ...Tags: Books, Music, Technology, Featured, Education, Microsoft, Teaching Music, Social Sciences, LMS, Arts & Humanities, Nearpod, Subtopics, Teaching Music Online, MusicFirst Google, Matic Flipgrid, Peardeck 3 people like this. Like Drexciya: how Afrofuturism is inspiring a memorial to slavery at seaJanuary 25, 2021 at 4:14 AM The alternative Black history of a deep-sea civilisation has planted the seed for proposals to memorialise the 1.8 million Africans who died in the AtlanticSomewhere in the dark, vast abyss of the Atlantic Ocean, deep beneath the waves, lies a civilisation. For centuries the Drexciyans have lived in peaceful isolation on the seabed, occupying their bubble metropolis, unaware of the land-based realm their ancestors were forced to leave behind.The Drexciyans trace their lineage back to the pregnan...Tags: Books, Education, Fiction, Race, World news, History, Culture, Oceans, Slavery, Atlantic Ocean, Drexciya, Science fiction books, Baby Drexciyans 46 people like this. Like |
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